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Cowpens National Battlefield

The Battle of Cowpens: The Battle Geography

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

To show students how Carolina backcountry geography affected the course of the Battle of Cowpens

Weir Farm National Historical Park

The Five Themes of Geography and Weir Farm

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Using examples from Weir Farm National Historical Park, students are introduced to the five themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region). They then use this information to examine the five themes of a place of their choice.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Geography: Navigation and Isolation on the Great Plains

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Getting lost in unfamiliar surroundings is a common human experience. In this lesson students will take on the role of navigator and mapmaker to pinpoint a location. By doing so, students will recognize that migration across the Great Plains landscape in the 1830s and 1840s required a unique set of survival skills and navigational tools.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

The Battle and Geography of Kennesaw Mountain Virtual Program

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this virtual program, students will learn about the geography of Kennesaw Mountain and why it as been important for generations, especially during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Students will also have an opportunity to make their own maps and discuss what they think is important about any given place.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Topography

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Battle of Kings Mountain is an excellent example of how landscape and geography can affect the outcome of events.

Petroglyph National Monument

How the Early Railroads Changed New Mexico

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This is a lesson that can be used to teach geography, history and economics using pictures, maps and scale models.

Kenai Fjords National Park

Those Fabulous Fjords!

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will become fluent in the vocabulary and physical geography of fjords. They will understand where fjords occur and why.

Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

Hot Spot

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn about the Mantle Plume Theory, plate tectonics, and Idaho geography by experimenting with a map of Idaho.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Mars Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Journey through time and space, through the geography and geology of sand dunes, and the feats of engineering that make such exploration possible.

Shenandoah National Park

5th Grade | Shenandoah National Park: Gem of the Blue Ridge

• Type: Guest Speakers
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Shenandoah National Park is an important natural and cultural resource in Virginia’s Blue Ridge geographic region. Students in the 9 Virginia counties that border this long and narrow national park will discover those resources with ranger-led in-class activities such as analyzing artifacts, investigating geologic samples, and writing creative responses while gaining classroom knowledge about Virginia’s history, geology, and geography.

Shenandoah National Park

The Spirit of the Mountain

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program connects the social, economic, geographic, and political history of the 1920s and 1930s with the establishment of Shenandoah National Park and the people whose lives were impacted.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Geology Lesson 3. Where did the oceans go?

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The learner will: • Understand the external forces that aid landscape evolution. • Apply this understanding to the Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, the Delaware basin area, or your local geography.

Canaveral National Seashore

America’s Space Program: Exploring a New Frontier

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson can be used in American history, social studies, and geography courses in units on the space program, the Cold War and its effects on American society, or interdisciplinary units on science and technology.

Glacier National Park

Locating Glacier National Park

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will label three maps to locate and identify landmarks near Glacier National Park in ever greater geographic areas: Glacier National Park and surroundings; the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada; and North America.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Water Power: Field Trip

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The physical and historical geography of the Harpers Ferry area demonstrates how landscapes shape human history and how human endeavors profoundly affect natural landscapes—a powerful reminder that the actions of today determine the opportunities of tomorrow.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Where's the Ranger?

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Use teamwork to play a game of 20 questions with the ranger to guess their National Park site. SHHH don’t give it away, the answer is Sleeping Bear Dunes. Great for students of all ages, but a basic knowledge of US geography is helpful.

Cowpens National Battlefield

This Land is Your Land

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This Land is Your Land is an interesting and aggressive lesson that incorporates research, hands on activities and on-site learning to illustrate and reinforce how the geographic features of Upstate South Carolina contributed to the Patriot strategy in their ultimate success at the Battle of Cowpens, 1781

Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park: Hoodoos Cast Their Spell

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on westward expansion (especially the Mormon settlement of Utah) and the conservation movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It could also be used in a geology course.

River Raisin National Battlefield Park

It's Not My Fault!

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Through this activity packet, students will use point of view and historical perspective to make connections to American history and geography in the Old Northwest Territory. Students will learn about the War of 1812 and study personal stories of the Battles of the River Raisin.

Acadia National Park

Concentric Sedimentary Circles

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will learn about sedimentary rock and the various sizes including boulder, cobble, pebble, sand, silt, and clay. They will create a temporary piece of art, based on concentric circles, using their various sizes of sedimentary rock found in nature using a geo sieve.